CURATED and HOSTED by MATT LAROCCA “FORTY SIX & 2” Tool, Arr

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SATURDAY FEBRUARY 27, 2021 AT 7:30PM ARTSRIOT, BURLINGTON

CURATED AND HOSTED BY MATT LAROCCA “FORTY SIX & 2” Tool, arr. Vitamin String Quartet An intricate and rhythmically explosive mixed-meter song off the second album released by Tool in 1996. “IF YOU NEED ME” Kat Wright, arr. Matt LaRocca “If You Need Me” is a song that will be released on Kat’s next album, reimagined with a string quartet style reminiscent of George Gershwin. “DIDO’S LAMENT” Henry Purcell, arr. Matt LaRocca Purcell’s 1689 opera Dido and Aeneas contains the impossibly MATT LAROCCA, beautiful and heartbreaking aria, “Dido’s Lament.” Kat lends her unique voice and sound to this operatic classic. CREATIVE PROJECTS CHAIR “PARANOID ANDROID” Matt LaRocca is a composer, performer, Radiohead, arr. Eric Gorfain and educator who you are just as likely “Paranoid Android” is the lead single from Radiohead’s 1997 to see playing with a band in a dive Grammy-winning album OK Computer. Radiohead is often bar as conducting an orchestra. He is regarded as the most influential musical group since the Beatles. on the composition and theory faculty “VOODOO DOLLS” at the University of Vermont, and is Jessie Montgomery the Artistic Director of the Champlain Jessie Montgomery is an acclaimed composer, violinist, and Philharmonic Orchestra. He is also the the recipient of the Leonard Bernstein Award from the ASCAP Executive Director of Music-COMP, an Foundation. “Voodoo Dolls” was commissioned by the JUMP! Dance Company of Rhode Island and is influenced by West organization that teaches composition African drumming patterns and chant motives. to students throughout the country by pairing them with professional “HEART, OCCUPIED” AND “THE BIG DEAL” composers as mentors. Committed to RYAN MILLER, arr. Matt LaRocca new music and innovation, LaRocca “Heart, Occupied” is the debut of a tune written with Miller’s brothers in Guster, a work-in-progress version given the loves bringing classical music to new “Jukebox Treatment” by Matt LaRocca. “The Big Deal” is another audiences and new spaces through brand-new song that we are honored to give its world premiere. his work as the curator of the VSO’s “ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER” Jukebox and Higher Ground concert Bob Dylan, arr. David Balakrishnan series. “All Along The Watchtower” is one of Bob Dylan’s most iconic As a musician growing up in the 80s and songs, covered by Jimi Hendrix and now arranged by David Balakrishnan, a founding member of the Turtle Island String 90s, Matt feels equally at home in the Quartet. rock and classical worlds. His classical work has been commissioned by the New Jersey Youth Symphony and the Great Falls Symphony Orchestra as well as the VSO. From 2007-2008 he Ryan Miller is the lead singer and guitarist was the Faculty Composer in Residence for the alternative rock band Guster. He for the Montana State University has pursued a full-time career in music Symphony. LaRocca also frequently since majoring in religious studies at Tufts works as an arranger for rock bands, University, where he met his bandmates. and his arrangements can be heard Miller is also a screenwriter and has on Guster’s OMAGAH! album recorded composed film scores for numerous with the Omaha Symphony. Artistic movies. He’s now based in Williston and residencies include an expedition hosts a series on Vermont PBS called in the high arctic through the Arctic “Makin’ Friends with Ryan Miller.” This will be the third time Circle Organization and composition/ Miller has collaborated with the VSO. improvisation teaching residencies at schools throughout New England and Kat Wright, whose voice is both sultry and California. He frequently performs as dynamic, delicate yet powerful, gritty but a violist and guitarist in classical, rock, highly emotive and nuanced, has been and improvisation ensembles. described as “a young Bonnie Raitt meets Amy Winehouse.” She and her eight-piece LaRocca holds degrees in chemistry and Indomitable Soul Band are often on tour, music from Middlebury College, and a but the VSO was fortunate enough to team doctorate in music composition from up with Kat for a sold-out show at Higher Boston University. He lives in Duxbury Ground in fall 2019. with his wife Heather and their children Jasper, Sawyer, and Mary.

Recorded live at ArtsRiot in Burlington, Vermont Alan Newman, Current Caretaker Production by Jamie Stillman Audio/Visual by Justin Bunnell RetroMotion

JUKEBOX QUARTET: Letitia Quante and Brooke Quiggins, violins Stefanie Taylor, viola John Dunlop, cello

VSO STAFF: Elise Brunelle, Executive Director Eleanor Long, Orchestra Manager Sasha Vaut, Director of Philanthropy Grace Spain, Manager of Audience Experience Matt LaRocca, Creative Projects Chair Patricia Jancova, Education & Ensemble Coordinator Marilyn Tagliavia, PR Consultant Robin LaPlante, Marketing Coordinator

VSO MUSIC DIRECTOR: Jaime Laredo

This season is made possible by the Northfield Savings Bank Innovation Fund, created to provide unique and creative ways that challenge the traditional way of listening to classical music. A special thanks to Courtyard Marriott for their continued support of the arts. This Jukebox concert is supported by the Ann M. Bragg Charitable Trust, in memory of Ann Miller Bragg. FOR A COMPLETE LIST OF THE SUPPORTERS OF OUR PROGRAMS, PLEASE CLICK HERE.